London mayor: western policy fuels london bombings
(crienglish.com)
Updated: 2005-07-21 19:22

London mayor Ken Livingstone  criticizes Western foreign policy in the Middle East, saying that the Western interference fuelled the Islamist radicalism behind the London bombings.

Livingstone made the remarks Wednesday in a BBC interview when asked what he thought had motivated the four suspected suicide bombers.

He said that the West had for 80 years meddled with Arab lands because of the need for oil, and implemented "double standards" in their Middle East policy.

He believed that extremism would not have prevailed if the West had returned the right of self-determination to the Arab countries after World War I.

A report released by the Royal Institute of International Affairs Monday indicated that Britain's involvement in the Iraq war led to greater risk from terrorist attacks.